Baha Mar is a private business, anyone who thinks they have an interest in this had better have some shares in their portfolio to prove it. Otherwise shut the hell up!

I've been sitting here with a foreign investor all day, and he took one look at this story and says this is not the place for him. And I quote "Many nations will accommodate an investor, treat him or her with respect, support and consideration, this article is a threat to all of us, and that's more than I'm willing to contemplate".

So much for that investment! Good job Mitchel! Scared another one away!

Mr Wrinkle experiencing some diarrhea of the mouth it seems. Half dem contractors he named are worth 100s of millions of dollars, and they been taking from foreign developers for soooooo long dem got the money to wait it out easy.

As for the reputation of our country, Baha Mar aint got no big impact on that. It's our lousy people and crime that gives us the bad reputations. From the moment a tourist arrives and faces the greedy and rude taxi guys and their beat up junk taxis, to the rude hotel staff, poor service everywhere you go and all at ripoff prices.

This country needs a big shake up, we need to get back to reality. Need to earn our keep just like any other country in the world. We aint so great that we get to make it by being rude obnoxious and overpriced. Where does this arrogance come from???

Lets just pick one island, level it, take off all trees and anything that floats, 30' electric fence around it, and drop all these criminals and their weapons on the island. Close the prison.

Let all these useless waste of food scumbags kill each other , who cares!

We don't need these guys.

If we don't want to waste a whole island on them, then lets just take all the guards out of fox hill and let them kill each other inside. Close the courts, no sense spending money on these scumbags.

Whether killer or victim, these two sides usually know each other, and are somehow involved with each other, I really doubt any of the these victims are innocent, just so happens that they got murdered before caught and convicted.

The more that die the better, it's like cleaning house!

"religious leader Bishop Simeon Hall "

Religious Leader= leader of peoples who believe utter nonsense.

There is also the criminal acts that so many religious leaders commit; i.e. collected monies in the name of a non existent god, which is fraud no mater how you view it!

Not sure this guy has ever sought after donations in the name of an imaginary god, lets all hope not...........

hey John, Our government is long since broke, they also can't manage anything. Give them Baha Mar and you might as well just burn it down.

There is a reason developments like this are only done by foreign companies, that is because our Bahamian people are completely useless at everything aside from lying , cheating and stealing, oh and being lazy.

Hey Newcitizen, the last thing any government wants is a well educated and critical thinking population. They want and need to keep the public stupid so they and their friends can continue to steal all the people's money

Baha Mar is a business, like any other. Sure it's larger, much larger, so what.

The Government has to give concessions to foreign investors, if not, why would they invest here; costs are too high, empoyees are expensive, unskilled and lazy, it's harder to get people here than to an american destination, New Providence has little to offer- true we have beautiful beaches on other islands- but NP is flat land with imported palms and is generally very ugly compared to most Islands in the region.

The only problems in the Bahamas come as a result of our own people, and government (which is made up of our people). The rich here, they know how bad it is,how bad employees and government is - so they are cautious and only invest in sure things.

Our people are lazy, spend more than they earn, don't pursue education for themselves or their kids and we have a systemic attitude of entitlement.

Baha Mar aint no big thing, it can be a temporary saviour for our crapy economy, but it certainly can't fix the real problems.

I think we are going to have to hit bottom before there is any real improvement. If we could turn the people around there is no stopping us, society would thrive.

However if we can't turn the people around, no amount of Baha Mar or Atlantis type resorts will ever be able to save us.

You might find it hard to accept the truth, but it's still the truth!

Lousy people = lousy society

Hey Guys I agree with you, I think the government should just ban honda cars, that should eliminate crime

This quote says it all:

"THE United States’ recent decision to open an embassy in Cuba will have a “major impact” on the Bahamas from a tourism standpoint, according to St Anne’s MP Hubert Chipman, who added that the Bahamas will now have to “do better with our services in order to attract more people into this country”."

Simple proof that the entitled attitude in this country starts at the top and goes all the way to the bottom.

Does this idiot not see that it is this systemic attitude problem (including his) in this nation that will be our downfall. (not that we can fall much lower)

Just imagine where the country might be if " you did a little better with our services" since time began. Why haven't we? Because we're a nation full of entitled, protected , useless people for the most part.

Sooner or later even our own dead ass people will have to compete, or starve. Maybe then they will get off their fat lazy entitled asses and get moving.